The diagnostic role of radioactivity in sentinel nodes in oral and oropharyngeal cancer

Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 535-543

  Kovács, Adorján F ^a   Döbert, Natascha ^a   Walendzik, Hartmut ^a   Zaplatnikov, Konstantin ^a   Landes, Constantin A ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck neoplasms; Lymphoscintigraphy; Oral cancer; Sentinel lymph node biopsy; Technetium Tc 99m nanocolloid

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN TC 99M; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; NANOCOLL; NANOCOLL TC 99M; TRACER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN INCISION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN;

EID: 33751014559     PISSN: 10849785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cbr.2006.21.535     Document Type: Article

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